General information about tear gas:
Made in the USA: Tear gas on the streets of Cairo:
A case study for the use of US-made tear gas against nonviolent protesters.
Tracking Tear Gas:
http://occupiedmedia.us/2012/02/tracking-tear-gas
A strong survey of global tear gas connections and profiteering.
No More Tears! comix:
http://warresisters.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/nomoretears.pdf
A comic on the economics of tear gas. Click here for the version in Arabic.
International efforts to ban tear gas:
Tear gas as a chemical weapon:
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=378206
This report documents how, in 1969, eighty countries voted to include tear gas agents among chemical weapons banned under the Geneva Protocol.
Tear gas and the Arms Trade:
This report calls for the inclusion of tear gas in an international Arms Trade Treaty (ATT).
Tear gas manufacturers in the US:
Below are the websites for three major manufacturers of tear gas in the US:
Defense Technology--Casper, WY
Combined Systems, Inc.--Jamestown, PA
Nonlethal Technologies--Homer City, PA
Documentation of tear gas:
Montage of tear gas used globally made by videographer Tamar Sharabi:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFxAKfbDp5I
Raja alThaibani's footage of tear gas in Cairo, November, 2011:
Bahraini police caught on camera spraying tear gas into homes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vK3mVoQJGJw&feature=player_embedded
Related story on France 24:
Tear gas used against protesters in Oakland, CA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcXNUif1Zv8
Related story by Keith Olberman:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bytMNoKNeRA
Tear gas image gallery:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/80330230@N06/?uploaded=3&magic_cookie=d08e6df3b81c25f4fc62f6268234b454
Calls for solidarity actions in the US against the shipment, sale, and manufacture of US tear gas:
"Stop the Import of US 'Tear Gas' and all other weapons to Egypt":
A February 2012 call from Egyptian labor activists to take against against US shipments of tear gas to Egypt.
Oakland + Cairo are one fist:
A December 2011 statement from activists in the San Francisco Bay Area in solidarity with Egyptian activists facing US tear gas.
Statements and research from Palestine solidarity activists:
Adalah-NY's research into and documentation of US tear gas sales to Palestine, Egypt, and other countries in the Middle East.
A policy report from US Campaign to End the Occupation about US military aid to Israel between FY 2000-2009, including more than 595,000 tear gas canisters and other ‘riot control’ equipment to the Israeli military.
Related story on the Electronic Intifada:
http://electronicintifada.net/content/us-sent-600000-tear-gas-canisters-israel-says-new-report/11043
Actions:
Port workers in Suez, Egypt refuse a shipment of 7 tons of tear gas from US company, Combined Systems, Inc.
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/11/29-3
Anonymous hacks the website of tear gas manufacturer Combined Systems, Inc. on the one year anniversary of the popular uprising in Bahrain:
